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Big Data - Tim Smith

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There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades - stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.

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Animation Artist Celeste Lai, Lisa LaBracio

Composer Corey Allen Jackson

Sound Designer Jennifer Lewis

Educator Tim Smith

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Learn more about CERN here.
The World Wide Web, invented at CERN in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, has grown to revolutionize communications worldwide.
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Take a look at this booklet (written in 2010) titled The Future of Cloud Computing.
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